[Lnc-business] Request for email ballot co-sponsors for Oregon resolution

[Tim Hagan]

I will co-sponsor this motion. It addresses some concerns I have with the original motion. The original motion can be extrapolated to conflict with action of the convention delegates, since the delegates sustained the ruling of the Chair.

Tim Hagan



________________________________
 From: Daniel Wiener <wiener at alum.mit.edu>
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org 
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 10:12 AM
Subject: [Lnc-business] Request for email ballot co-sponsors for Oregon	resolution
 


I move to adopt the following resolution, and request co-sponsors for an email ballot:



Whereas, the Bylaws of the Libertarian Party state that “delegates to a
Regular Convention shall be selected by a method adopted by each affiliate
party” (Article 11, 3 (b)), and
>Whereas, the Bylaws of the Libertarian Party state that “each state-level
affiliate party shall, in accordance with its own Bylaws and these Bylaws,
determine who shall be its delegates to all Regular Conventions.” (Article 6,
3), and 
>Whereas, the Bylaws of the Libertarian Party state that “the autonomy of the
affiliate and sub-affiliate parties shall not be abridged by the National
Committee or any other committee of the Party…” (Article 6, 5), and
>Whereas, a dispute over the Oregon delegation was placed before the
Credentials Committee, which subsequently presented a report to the Libertarian
Party National Convention on June 27, 2014 which did not describe the details
of that dispute, and
>Whereas, a motion was made to amend the Credentials Committee report to
include three individuals as delegates within the Oregon delegation, and
>Whereas, in response to a Point of Order the Chair of the National
Convention ruled that the proposed amendment was in order, the Chair’s ruling
was appealed, the Chair’s ruling was sustained by a vote of the assembly, and
the assembly subsequently approved the amendment, and
>Whereas, the 11th edition of Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised, which is
the Parliamentary Authority for the Libertarian Party as stated in Article 16
of its Bylaws, states (p. 483) that “In any event, no action of the board can
alter or conflict with any decision made by the assembly of the society, and
any such action of the board is null and void (see p. 577, II. 23-33).”, and 
>Whereas, the Libertarian National Committee nevertheless regrets the
situation wherein some delegates believe the above decision was incorrectly
decided, therefore
>Be it resolved that it is the sense of the Libertarian National Committee that
it wishes to convey those regrets to the Libertarian Party of Oregon.
Daniel Wiener
Region 4 Representative




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